Scaevola hookeri
(de Vriese) F.Muell. ex Hook.f. Creeping Fan-flowerProstrate, stoloniferous, often mat-forming herb; stems to 30 cm long, rooting at nodes, hispid to pilose. Leaves shortly petiolate, ovate to oblong, 1–5 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, usually obtuse, both surfaces sparsely appressed-pubescent, margins entire or toothed and flat. Flowers solitary in axils; peduncles 1–8 mm long; bracteoles elliptic to oblong, 4–6 mm long. Sepals minute or obsolete; corolla 5–8 mm long, hispid outside, sparsely pubescent inside, white or blue, usually yellowish in throat, wings to c. 1 mm wide; indusium depressed-obovate, with sparse long bristles at base, orifice more or less glabrous. Fruit obovoid, c. 3 mm long, rugose, pubescent. Flowers mainly Nov.–Mar.
VVP, GipP, EGL, WPro, HSF, HNF, VAlp. Also SA, NSW, Tas. Scattered in near-coastal heaths and woodlands east of Port Phillip Bay, extending from lowlands to alps where a frequent colonizer of bare, moist ground.
Forms from near-coastal sites are typically larger-leaved, hairier and of looser growth habit than those from alpine sites.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Goodeniaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 589–615. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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